Nails

Present

Present - detail

Present - acrylic, plywood, nails, bottlecaps

An infinity symbol bisects another infinity mark and reclaims consciousness through action.
Discarded bottle caps have been flattened into the round like a tumbled rock, worn down and smooth edged. Flattened bottle-caps can be found everywhere from Arrowtown to Potosi, ubiquitous and abandoned on the path. Indicative of convenience and tossed to the street they are slowly, anonymously, invisibly crushed by wheels of vehicles and by peoples’ feet. A small circle of colour removed from its original purpose has been forgotten, lost and transformed.
The underlying surface of Present replete with painted dots corresponds with the conscious mind, each of the marks deliberate, aware. This foundation peers through yet is partially eclipsed by a layer of bottle caps collectively representing unconscious processes. These caps retrieved from the byways and highways are sandwiched between layers of intention. From the exterior, painted nails determinedly pierce through each bottle cap to reconnect the probity of the inner to the outer. A layer of ‘unknown’ and ‘unknowing’ captured between two measured schemes of colour and design, the insentient skewered by resolve. The cycle has been completed to form the present moment where endless action and inaction are in balance.